After saying that, Ning Xiang slipped away with a hand over her fluttering heart.
Standing beside Great Beauty Qin was far too intimidating. Ning Xiang took out a little mirror. She was hardly bad-looking herself, so why did she always feel eclipsed whenever she stood beside Great Beauty Qin?
Ning Xiang found a moment to send Yu Tingchao a message. She had not heard from him since yesterday, which was clearly unusual.
She wondered whether it was because they were getting farther and farther from the Eastern Sea, but no reply came.
Just as Ning Xiang was puzzling over it, messages arrived from Jiang Miaomiao and her father, asking where she was.
Ning Xiang asked Jiang Miaomiao to contact Yu Tingchao. Before long, Jiang Miaomiao replied, "Senior Sister, I can't reach Fourth Senior Brother. I'll go look for him on Penglai Island."
"Stay on Tianxuan Island with Xia Buyan. Don't go running around," Ning Xiang hurriedly stopped her. "If anything happens, my father and Uncle Shaowei will handle it."
After ending the connection through the Communication Talisman, the unease in her heart still lingered.
But night had fallen, and they were drawing ever closer to the Sea of No Delusion. Clearly, they could no longer turn back.
Ning Xiang stopped the flying magical artifact in midair and looked down. A blood-red sea of fire churned along the seabed.
This was where Mingyuan had been born. She wondered how he had felt during those ten thousand years of burning and tempering, gazing at scenery that never changed through the ages.
As Ning Xiang's thoughts wandered, the flying magical artifact began to shudder and tilt, nearly dragged down by a powerful suction.
Everyone steadied themselves. Ning Hui said, "Look, a huge fissure has opened in the seabed."
They looked where Ning Hui